A couple years ago my wife bought me a dutch oven at a garage sale. She paid $15 for it. (I have a dutch-oven-cooking hobby.) What she got me was a Griswold that was about 100 years old. I never used it, but I cleaned it up a bit.
I was curious about whether it had antique value, so I did a little research. Turns out it was a rare item, and it appeared to have a value between $200 and $300. (I found this out by examining "completed" sales on e-bay for this exact item.)
Since I wasn't interested in using it (because it didn't fill a gap in my collection) I experimented with listing it on Craigslist. After a couple of false starts with potential buyers who weren't all that serious, I sold it for $200 to a collector.
Moral of the story - if it has antique value, why not find that out and sell it to someone who will appreciate it? My guess is that it doesn't have antique value, based on what you've said about it. Without a known name it is unlikely to have value.
Oh - and I split the "profit" on that Griswold with Mrs. S.
-Speak
